cookmaster crisis!

[toggleswitch]

4. Electric...seems like much less cooking with gas in Canada than in the US

IIRC the general building insulation standards requrired in Cananda FAR exceed our own.

I believe with a source of air pollution (gas stove) in a tightly sealed space, it becomes legally necessary there to have a mechanical air-exchanger (heat-recovery ventilator).
The expense and mechanics necessary to have a gas stove then becomes a hassle.

Perhaps the water-vapor given off by combustion is also a probem.

Does Cananda have mostly 24 inch (60cm stove?) I thought every one I saw was a 30 incher (75 cm).

Perhaps PeteK can fill us in with accuracies...

http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_improvement/home_improvement/1275841.html

 

[toggleswitch]

Heat Recovery Ventilator

Honeywell has one too..

http://yourhome.honeywell.com/Consu...ucts/Ventilation/Energy+Efficient/Default.htm

 

[petek]

The only 24 inch stoves I've ever seen in all my years have been in apartments, I've never known anyone to have one in their house, 36 inch is the standard size, the big wide double ovens disappeared in the 60's altogether.
It's my understanding after asking around that electric stoves were probably the only appliance where there was a difference being that the Canadian models all had consumer replaceable fuses including for the outlets and not all US models did. That's probably why the Flairs weren't sold here if they only had fusible links. While nothing would stop you from buying one and bringing it home, if it caused a problem like a fire in your house your insurance would be void.
There aren't any differences in the standards for all other household appliances, so long as it has a UL or CSA sticker it's fine.
I don't think there's any difference in the ratio of gas vs electric stoves than the US, plenty of people have gas stoves.

Installation and building codes are set by each province not by the federal government so those can vary but are generally similar across the board. Gas stoves and dryers don't need any special ventilation in Alberta whereas gas fireplaces have to be vented here. Cities or municipalities can also add onto the codes as they see fit, they just can't dilute them.
Not any different than in the US in that regard.

 

[toggleswitch]

YUP. I saw lotsa 30 inch stoves in Canada, but in stores, did not see acutal homes.

Pete: Electric cooking in the US FAR outnumbers gas cooking- same in Canada? Also AS A CLASS (depite outnumbering gas), there are far fewer injuries, accidents and fires with electric.

Here many states and municipalities do not allow un-vented gas logs or gas fireplaces or gas heaters.
To get gas logs, even, you have to get out of NYC and go elsewhere in NYS.
Kerosene heaters are NOT allowed NYC. Fire hazard; and MAJORLY unhealthy in that they are unvented.

 

[jamiel]

Don't get me started on unvented combustion heaters...major trauma of my childhood...I 6 or 7, my brother 2 or 3. Visiting my great-grandmother (we called her Grandmother) in Tulsa OK in the biiiiiig house (so big it had an elevator--my great-grandfather was the first county judge (literally--at statehood) for Tulsa county Oklahoma so you can picture the big victorian in which he lived. Grandmother moved into Oral Roberts' retirement center in 1970 (and lived there until 1992, passing away at 104), so this must have been 1969

Anyway, us boys off to bed, the parents and Grandmother down in the parlor. I wake up and see the unvented gas heater (probably just the pilot) and get scared. Cry out for my parents or someone, but the house was so big that they couldn't hear...my brother woke up and got them up to the bedroom.

To this day I cross on the other side of the room if I encounter one of them.

 

[toggleswitch]

Well that IS scary..

I fear them for other reasons..